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1 Mann. Unrep. Cas. 242

State v. Wells

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided July 1, 1880

Supreme Court of Louisiana · decided 1880-07-01

<p>Appeal from the District Court for Madison Hough, J.</p>

Decided 1880-07-01

Manning, C. J.

¶1The defendant was convicted of perjury, and sentenced to confinement at hard labor for five years.

¶2A motion in arrest of judgment was made for insufficiency of the indictment in this, that t! there is no averment which denies, contradicts and falsifies the matter wherein the perjury is assigned.”

¶3*243The information does contain that averment in these words; “ whereas he, the said William Wells then and there well knew that said Henry Williams did not say to him, or to any one in his presence, that he would send Maria Benton,” etc.

¶4This is the only ground taken in the motion in arrest, although there is another argued in the brief, but is not presented by the pleadings.

¶5Judgment affirmed.

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